Norway has recently said that proprietary formats will no longer be acceptable for communication between citizens and government. Norway follows the lead of other European governments in supporting open source software and rejecting the expensive and buggy software from Microsoft and other companies which poses continual security risks and inhibits economic development.

Nuclear power is usually the most expensive. Construction and safety compliance is costly and there is no place to store the deadly waste. Many plants are merely programs to steal taxpayer money and never even open or too costly to actually operate. Bush wants to continue the scam and get you to pay for it.

In April, Portland, Oregon became the first city in the country to pull out of its local Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) agreement with the FBI. JTTFs federalize law enforcement, subvert the democratic process and are unconstitutional.

54,000 tons of radioactive waste that will be radioactive for more than 2 million years still has no safe to be stored. The answer? “Build more nuclear power plants to create more deadly waste,” says Bush and gang.

The US govt. stole billions of dollars in royalties belonging to native americans. Natives sued but the case has dragged on for 9 years. Now they have proposed a settlement of $27.5 Billion and reforms to stop the continued theft.

The US has ignored repeated requests from the UN to visit the concentration camp at Guantanamo Bay. Prisoners are visited by the Red Cross but their findings are not published and anything it might publish would be suspect considering its criminal history and collusion with the CIA.

Frogs and toads are becoming extinct all over the world. It’s the same magnitude event as the extinction of the dinosaurs. If we are causing the extinction of so many species our own extinction can’t be far behind.

The Bush military has started to create a database of high school students ages 16 to 18 and all college students. The students will be profiled and tracked to better target them for recruitement and later conscription. The system will also help identify potential threats to the evil empire so they can be neutralized before posing a threat.

All we have to do to see the madness of our species is to open our eyes and look at what we are doing to each other, to the environment which we depend on for our survival, and to ourselves. What more evidence of a collective psychosis do we possibly need?

The webmaster for this and related sites was targeted today with a sophisticated electronic weapon. While this in itself is not unusual the severity of the attack was. Yesterday one of our camera operators was almost arrested for taping protests in Philadelphia.

Americans, along with the rest of the world, are starting to wake up to the uncomfortable fact that Bush not only lied to them about the reasons for attacking Iraq but also about when the attacks began. The same secret pre-war attacks are now being used against Iran.

Today marked the largest protests in Philadelphia against the criminal corporations meeting in the city for their annual biotech conference. Many protestors have been arrested, some beaten and most blocked from peaceful demonstrations. So far the only casualties was a policeman who reportedly died from a heart attack while chasing a protestor.

The Federal Bureau of Idiots has decided that animal rights activists are the biggest threat to America and is going after them with both barrels. Bush is considering bombing PETA headquarters with new nuclear bunker busters just in case they might have secret underground facilities.

Japan’s insistence on killing whales is indicative of its cultural rigidity and govt. corruption. However, it should encourage everyone to consider their own relationship to Earth’s other creatures and the consequences of needlessly killing and eating them.

While the world clamors for the release of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, a subsidiary of Halliburton, the oil services group once led by Dickhead Cheney, has been handed a $30 million contract to help build a new permanent prison there.

Few scientists fabricate results from scratch or flatly plagiarize the work of others, but a surprising number engage in troubling degrees of fact-bending or deceit, according to the first large-scale survey of scientific misbehavior.

Months before the start of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, members of Saddam’s regime cut deals with the US to surrender the capital and the rest of the country. Despite this no war surrender, the axis of evil continued to bomb Iraq into oblivion.

Sex discrimination and antiwomen attitudes are still prevalent today on work sites. With a shortage of qualified male workers, successful companies will overcome cultural bias and incorporate more women into their workforce.

Buried in the 700-plus page energy bill currently under debate in the U.S. Senate is a provision that provides hundreds of millions of dollars worth of federal loan guarantees for a power project apparently to be built by four former Enron executives.

A London man described as the “world’s biggest computer hacker” has been arrested and faces up to 70 years in prison. Friends claim that he did the hacks to prove that the US govt. was hiding info. on UFOs.

In April 2005 the international community began to take a closer look at the United States justice system as its government attempted to explain and or deny the presence of admitted terrorist, Luis Posada Carriles.

An unusual protest was held in Moroccan capital Rabat last month. Members of the independent National Authority for Protection of Public Funds gathered outside parliament to demand a national authority for truth.

A new book entitled “The Men Who Stare at Goats” is about an unsuccessful attempt to investigate the US governments psychic spying program. The fact that the book was even published and reviewed in a major newspaper speaks volumes.

A Chinese diplomat has defected and sought aylum, which was rejected by Australia. While western corporations and their political puppets have been eager to make deals with the Chinese dictatorship, the fact remains that China is under the control of a brutal and criminal regime.

Faced with daily reports of car bombs and kidnappings, it’s difficult to feel optimistic about Iraq. There is another story that gives hope, it is about a movement that has formed to rebuild the country’s economy and national pride, to create an Iraq with neither the tyranny of Saddam nor the pillage of military occupation.

GeneWatch UK and Greenpeace International are launching the first on-line register of genetically modified contamination incidents. The on-line, searchable web site gives details of all the known cases of GM contamination of food, feed, seed and wild plants that have taken place worldwide.

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